According to Fox 29, a Monday-scheduled public hearing at Harriton High School will witness a lawyer for the Lower Merion School District, Pennsylvania, revealing details of its alleged webcam spying investigation.

Fox 29 also disclosed that the district will release an independent report, acknowledging its mistakes made in the webcam case as well as highlighting the need to have a requisite policy in place to address the issue.

The proceedings in the one-of-its-kind case of school-sanctioned spying case began when the family of a 15-year-old student, Blake Robbins, filed a federal lawsuit, accusing the school district of invasion of privacy, by using the webcam on the school-provided laptops to keep track of students’ activities at home.

While the students and parents had signed a policy giving the school the right to monitor the laptops’ contents and Internet usage by the students, the policy makes no mention of the school’s ability to use the webcams to click images of the children at home.

Noting that the webcam activation software – which supposedly was initiated to help the school track the loss or theft of the laptops – had already been disabled, the school district board’s president David Ebby recently said in a letter to the parents that the school board was regretful of its “mistakes and misguided actions.”